Improvement in board fences



L. F. WILDER. .BOARID-FENCES.

No. 195,426, Patented Sept.18,1877.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

' LANSFORD F. WILDER, OF SUMNER, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOARD FENCES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 195,426, datedSeptember 1 7; applicatio filed July 28, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LANSFORD F. WILDER, of Sumner, in the county ofGratiot and State of Michigan, have invented a new and valuablelmprovementin Portable Board Fences; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the constructionand operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings,making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures ofreference marked thereon.

Figure 1 is a side view of my portable fence. Fig. 2 is a detail View ofmy double hook for uniting the parts of the fence, and Fig. 3 is aperspective detail view.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangementof a portable fence, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, A A represent the panels of myimprovedportablefence, consisting of horizontal boards overlapping each other,and connected together by vertical boards B B. The vertical end bars Bof each panel project above it, and are connected together by a wire, I,hooked at its ends, and engaging with the projecting upper ends of thevertical boards B.

D D represent stakes inserted from opposite sides, and crossing eachother between the two upper boards of the panel, their lower ends beinginserted in the ground.

The stakes D D are connected together in pairs by means of a single rod,G, bent in the center to pass under one of the panel-boards, andprovided with hooks at its ends, which engage with the stakes.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The overlapping fence panels A A, provided with the central verticalboards B and end vertical boards B, extending above the panels andconnected by a removable wire, I, at their upper ends, in combinationwith the cross-stakes D D and rod G, bent at its middle, and providedwith hooked ends, substantially as described, and for the purpose setforth.

In testimony that I claim the above 1 have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

LANSFORD F. WILDER.

Witnesses:

SYLVESTEB H. VANLENVER, MARGARET L. WILDER.

